Column: Sen. Ted Cruz and other Republicans in Congress are ignorant about gun laws. Mayor Lori Lightfoot was right to call them out.
by:
Dahleen Glanton @dahleeng
Chicago Tribune FAKE NEWS columnist
Chicago, Ill.
by:
Dahleen Glanton @dahleeng
Chicago Tribune FAKE NEWS columnist
Chicago, Ill.
Cruz might have exaggerated a little by saying Chicago has THE toughest gun laws and he might have exaggerated when he said they had the highest murder rate, but not much on either point and certainly not enough to alter the conclusions one draws.
Chicago is a perfect example of how gun control laws actually increase murders.
1) Not true. Dems are the ones who think anything above a colonial one shot musket is a military “assault” version of a Tommy Gun in the Untouchables.
2) Even if it were true it would be because he was all sweating and tense over cramming to try keep up with Alyssa Milano for their upcoming debate and didn’t have time to study gun laws./s
2)If you want to come to Chicago and learn about the root cause can have that convo. But enough with this dishonest use of our city as a cheap symbol to cover for the @gop’s unwillingness to protect their constituents.— Lori Lightfoot (@LightfootForChi) September 4, 2019
Mayor, the most significant “root cause” is that criminals have all the guns. One place to start is not releasing back to the public, but rather locking up violent, repeat offenders before they murder again: https://t.co/U2Hyn0CSiH https://t.co/v7PLn0ICnc— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) September 4, 2019
Chicago gun laws: Kill or be killed
Here is the aformentioned sack o' chitluns trying to equate dead people killed with illegal guns vs. people who were killed with legal guns, all equally DEAD:
This 'columnist' is as dumb as a sack of mice.
Someone from the Chicago Tribune lecturing on ignorance of gun laws.
That is rich.
The Lady needs to turn her attention to reducing the weekly deaths IN CHICAGO.
She’s a moron. From her TWITurd feed
Illinois’ felony murder law is wrong. Every kid deserves a second chance.
A second chance to kill again.
“Neither point is accurate, but that hasn’t stopped Republicans, including Donald Trump, from spreading the lie.“
Leave it to the Chicago Tribune to sort out the lies from the truth.
Sheesh. Why am I always finding this garbage on Free Republic? Isn’t this supposed to be a repository of the truth?
Is there anyone who can define what a sensible gun law entails? All these pundits keep saying that but I have yet to hear one tell what sensible gun laws are...
Chicago Tribune. Publishing treason and betraying America since December, 1941. (You can look it up.)
some rich American could go into Chicago and just distribute firearms (perhaps with safety training class vouchers, that would be a nice tough) to as many people as possible, so that they can defend themselves, their families, friends, and communities.
yes, I know...
but it would help solve Chicago’s problems
If she were correct, why do the places where the guns come from have lower murder rates than Chicago?
That shows gun laws are not the problem.
Aiding and abetting the thugs, figures
It is not guns in the hands of criminals but criminals from chicago going to Indina that force us to arm.
Enough of these terror sht holes and democrat rhetoric laying the blame on inanimate objects
How much did Dahleen’s parents have to pay to get her into journalism school?
Probably attended the same university as Obummer.
“”Most of the guns used in homicides in Chicago were obtained illegally. There’s a huge difference. To try to equate the two is ignorant and disingenuous.””
Oh! my goodness - who is ignorant and disingenuous? So the weapons used in Chicago homicides are illegal therefore they can’t be included in statistics about the number of homicides? I get it - I think. At least I can see why people are stupid enough in IL to vote in the demon-rats that have done so much to “improve” our lives...
Normally, tweets from Washington officials get a story on the news. Cruz's tweetstorm should have been the #1 story (well, maybe #2 after Hurricane Dorian) but it isn't.
The obvious conclusion is that Dems and the Left do not want Chicago and other failed big cities brought into the gun debate.
Cruz should meet the Chitcogo Mare, and the author of this tripe, in the super dome where they can fight it out in a pool filled with lime jello.
Three kinds of bad laws: In-laws, outlaws and gun laws.
There should be only one code for the encapsulation of gun legislation, and that would have to do with the FULL education of every school child, and up through adult education, of the description, design, identification, care, feeding, grooming and proper and acceptable use of firearms of all kinds.
How can we KNOW, beforehand, which persons would use sidearms for malicious or deadly purpose, and which would not? That is where mass education effort comes in - acquaint EVERY person with the simple facts of what firearms ARE, then proceed with allowing them access to where they may handle them under controlled conditions.
People would fall, generally, into three groups. Those who recognize and respect what firearms are, and their purposes, those who would, from the very first, use the firearms as a means to intimidate and bully their acquaintances, neighbors and total strangers, and those who are so pathologically afraid of guns or weapons of any kind, they avert their eyes immediately and no rational argument will convince them the gun will not rise of its own will, aim itself at them and shoot them dead on the spot.
The first group would be amenable to further education and training in the proper care, feeding, grooming and storage of sidearms, and how to effectively use them for defense, by identifying the target, framing it, aiming the gun, and firing the weapon with a degree of accuracy and effectiveness.
The second group, once identified, should either be put into some kind of counseling, or under a lifetime prohibition against EVER acquiring, using or even coming into contact with weapons that could be used with malicious purposes, even it it is a knife, a baseball bat or just their hands on a rock or brick.
The third group, the perpetually frightened, should get instruction on how to avoid, evade or escape from situations where they may be threatened by another with ill intent, and also have them tattooed with their names and social security numbers somewhere on their bodies, in the worse case situation, to make identification much more quickly.